Oubliette
Oubliette holds the charming quips and reminiscences of a mother and the anticipatory grief of her daughter. Hannah Godfrey collected scraps of conversations and recollections she shared with her mum, Ericca, during the last years of her life. In the same notebook, she kept quotes from films and books that articulated the terrible sadness of losing a loved one to a horrible illness. Sweet, funny, and devastating, Oubliette is a poignant, partial portrait of two people who loved each other wonderfully and irreplaceably.
PUBLISHED OCT 2023 | ISBN 978-1-7775549-6-5 • POETIC MEMOIR • 112 PAGES / 4.5 × 7 IN / SOFTCOVER + HALF DUST JACKET
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Oubliette is written with wit and grace, steering clear of clichés often associated with loss. Rather than offering profound epiphanies, Godfrey generously invites readers into her intimate documentation of grief in real time.
UNITER, University of Winnipeg and downtown community newspaper
It’s tender, beautiful and a poetic portrait of grief. The eternal ties between a mother and her daughter.
SHANNON WEBB-CAMPBELL, author of I Am a Body of Land (Book*hug, 2019)
The stuttering of fragments from Top Gun to Tracey Emin to Cicero renders a moving present-tense of grief in this text. Godfrey’s keen ear and vivid memory cast shadows that are deftly traced to form an outline of what has been cleft from the writer.
REBECCA LA MARRE, editor, Apophony Press